Blogging Vocabulary

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PLAY

(n) your choice of overall design for your blog; may be customized. The style of your blog.

widget

(n) a feature which can be dragged and dropped onto sidebars to control blog content

dashboard

(n) control panel of the blog; runs vertically down left side of the page when logged in

tagline

(n) subtitle of your blog, located beneath your blog title

copyright

(n) An exclusive right granted by the federal government allowing the owner to reproduce and sell an artistic or published work.

Creative Commons

(n) A license that lets others use your work for free as long as they give you credit and respect your conditions;

license

(n) A clear way to define the copyright of your creative work so people know how it can be used.

piracy

(n) the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work;

plagiarism

(n) Taking someone else's work or IDEAS and passing them off as one's own.

Public Domain

(n) Creative work that is not copyrighted and therefore free for people to use without the owner's permission.

Fair Use

(n) a law which allows the use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties. It permits the limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder